Disclaimer: The information contained within this thread has not been obtained illegally. The point is to share what I have and let ATS do what they do best. Separate fact from fiction.

Last Tuesday, a thread titled: Sodalitas Vulturis Volantis – SVV is not a game, appeared on ATS. I was immediately intrigued, which led me to search and learn everything that I possibly could about the “game.”

Here’s where we left off…

So about a month ago I started playing an “ARG” involving an organization called the SVV, or Sodalitas Vulturis Volantis. I started to notice some strange things about their interests and brought this up to the “Chancellor” or leader of the “ARG”. Soon I was expelled from the game. So I used some web vulnerabilities and got access to some of their backend files, which eventually led me to an e-mail trail.

The first thing that I noticed was that the original member called the ARG, Sodalitas Vulturis Volantis, but when you go to the official website, it is displayed as Sodalitas Vultur Volans. Google roughly translates the former into, “membership vulture flying,” or, “Brotherhood of the Flying Vulture.”

Vultur Volans (the flying vulture), is a name that the Romans gave the constellation Aquila. The name Aquila is Latin for “eagle.” There are some comparisons to be made.

It is now one of the 88 constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. The constellation was also known as Vultur volans (the flying vulture) to the Romans, not to be confused with Vultur cadens which was their name for Lyra.

It is often held to represent the eagle who held Zeus’s/Jupiter’s thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology. Aquila is also associated with the eagle who kidnapped Ganymede, a son of one of the kings of Troy (associated with Aquarius), to Mount Olympus to serve as cup-bearer to the gods.

(Altair) is the brightest star in this constellation and one of the closest naked-eye stars to Earth at a distance of 17 light-years. Its name comes from the Arabic phrase “al-nasr al-tair”, meaning “the flying eagle”. Altair has a magnitude of 0.76.

(Alshain) is a yellow-hued star of magnitude 3.7, 45 light-years from Earth. Its name comes from the Arabic phrase “shahin-i tarazu”, meaning “the balance”; this name referred to Altair, Alshain, and Tarazed.

(Tarazed) is an orange-hued giant star of magnitude 2.7, 460 light-years from Earth. Its name, like that of Alshain, comes from the Arabic for “the balance”, “shahin-i tarazu”.

Two major novae were observed in Aquila throughout history. The first occurred in 389 BC and was said to be as bright as Venus. The second occurred in 1918 and briefly shone brighter than Aquila’s brightest star, Altair. There are also three very interesting planetary nebulae as well.

I could go into greater detail about what each nebula represents esoterically, but that’s not what this thread is really about. It is all a part of the bigger picture though.

In classical Greek mythology, Aquila was identified as Αετός Δίας (Aetos Dios), the eagle that carried the thunderbolts of Zeus and was sent by him to carry the shepherd boy Ganymede, whom he desired, to Mount Olympus; the constellation of Aquarius is sometimes identified with Ganymede.

In Hinduism, the constellation Aquila is identified with the half-eagle half-human deity Garuda.

In ancient Egypt, it is possible that Aquila was seen as the falcon of Horus.

Ganymede is the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter as well as the largest moon in the entire solar system. It is the only known moon to have a magnetic field. All food for thought.

Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals:

[Ganymedes] was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore
the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus’ wine-pourer,
for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the immortals.
— Homer, Iliad, Book XX, lines 233-235.

I could be wrong, but Zues may represent the same god that satanic pedophiles worship, only in another form and context. There certainly is enough speculation to furnish a separate thread and discussion.

The myth was a model for the Greek social custom of paiderastía, the socially acceptable erotic relationship between an adult male and an adolescent male. The Latin form of the name was Catamitus (and also “Ganymedes”), from which the English word “catamite” is derived.

Anyway, are you ready for the most interesting part of this thread? I think it’s about time that I come clean. I’ve been sitting on these PDFs for about a week and was actually hoping that someone else on ATS would find and post them before I had a chance to clear my conscience.

I initially discovered these PDFs by identifying how may separate addresses were associated with humanisbeing.com…. This lead me to the page where everything that I’m about to show you was found.

Whether or not these PDFs were meant to be discovered is why this thread exists. You may need to download a few in order to view the documents in their entirety. I find them to be very extraordinary!!

I hope ATS is willing to take a closer look at this information and investigate further. Is this all part of the “game” or something more? Just so you’re aware, there are files that I’m not allowed to post.

The Knights Templars, Freemasonry, and the former-Illuminati have always been in pursuit of all things good and virtuous. The Knights Templars promoted chivalry and fought to protect the weak, Freemasonry aims to guide a good person into making themselves better, and the former-Illuminati sought to cultivate collective societal happiness.

Though completely extrinsic, separate, and independent of each other, these groups heavily revolve around upright morals and ethics, positive mental and emotional states, as well as virtues and qualities such as Equality, Liberty, Freedom, Justice, and Truth.

The Knights Templars, Freemasonry, and the former-Illuminati have been demonized and imagined as wicked, even though they have worked to free and uplift the common man. In fact, many of the groundbreaking rights, privileges, and luxuries of our modern era came to fruition from the very soil toiled by these Societies.

Outline

I. Old World Order of the Kings and Priests

II. Ancient Knowledge and the Mysteries

III. Dark Ages

IV. Innocence of the Templars

V. Hope For Humanity: Renaissance, Science, Discovery

VI. Enlightenment

VII. Revolution: Novus Ordo Seclorum (New Order of the Ages)

VIII. Order of Illuminati

IX. Light

X. New World Order

XI. TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read)

I. Old World Order of the Kings and Priests

In the beginning, primeval man sought safety from danger through the strength of numbers. As infantile man herded together, naturally, alpha figures arose. These alpha figures became leaders, and the herds of mankind became distinct clans and tribes. From within these tribal communities arose the cunning warriors and warlords who would eventually establish kingdoms, empires, and the Royal Caste.

With the relative safety offered by the defenders of the realm, individuals gained the luxury of leisurely rationalization, contemplation, and reflection. This, in turn, allowed the mind to grow in knowledge, understanding, and reasoning. With these tools of the intellect, the mind became fertile with the seeds of ideation, imagination, and speculation, from hence sprouted creativity and ingenuity. It was from the limbs of creative-genius that the plentiful fruits of invention and ideology blossomed. These intellectual philosophers grew to become the natural, psychological, and metaphysical scientists who initiated and generated the Priestly Caste.

To varying degrees of cooperation, the Royals and the Priests ruled over mankind for millennia. The monarchs and priests, realizing that a great deal of power lies in knowledge, thus began the suppression of information and established the original “Intellectual Dark Age” of the common people (plebeians/proletariats). This information monopoly was used by the monarchs to subjugate, appease, and expand their domain, while the priests cemented their own eminence by using their knowledge to amaze, bedazzle, and mystify the people into ideological submission. This coalition between the Royals and the Priests typifies the “Old World Order” (O.W.O.).

During the O.W.O., ignorance, superstition, and fear were wide-spread. Illiteracy was high among the common people, while temple scribes and nobles wielded the pen. The majority of the common person’s knowledge was confined and compartmentalized to that of their direct experiences and immediate avenues of working, earning a living, and surviving in life. Fortunate commoners found relief through the crafts and trades, while higher education was reserved for the wealthy, the nobility, royalty, and the priesthoods.

The Old World Order’s culture of restrictive learning, led to the development of various caste and social classes throughout the world. The unlearned and underprivileged common people were forced to grovel at the feet of the upper-class Nobility, and kneel before the Royals and Priests.

II. Ancient Knowledge and the Mysteries

Throughout place and culture, we have excellent examples of advanced knowledge associated with the ancient religious Priesthoods. Furthermore, we can map out a clear progression of the attainment of this knowledge, therefore, dispelling the mystery and mystique.

Just as with all creatures of this world, mankind was a subject victim to the whims of nature. Each day, man would go about his regular routine of satisfying the basic necessities of his primitive existence and survival. When darkness appeared, he was blinded and limited, seeking the safety of trees, caves, and rudimentary shelters.

The Sun serves as our planet’s primary source of sustenance and preservation. It displaces the uncertainty and danger of darkness, it causes the plants and trees to grow, it warms our skin, and it gives illuminating light to the world. With so much depending on its radiance, the Sun came to be viewed and worshipped as the Most High God. The fundamental worship of the Sun can be found throughout the cultures of our prehistoric and ancient past, with remnants of Sun worship existing to this day.

Being held to the mercy of the elements, man lived a great deal of his life in uncertainty. His life expectancy was short, as mortal danger awaited him at every turn. In order to strengthen the prospects of his own survival, a high birth rate was vital, not only to expand the tribe, but also to secure man’s survival into the future. When food became scarce, he followed the foodstuff animals and journeyed to growths of edible vegetation. Man realized that his very survival was dependent upon the continued and sustained birth of his offspring, the birth of new animals, and the birth of new plants. With this realization, fertility, procreation, and birth came to be held in high esteem. These qualities came to be symbolized, revered, and worshipped in the form of the ancient Mother Goddess, who can be found throughout the world.

Perhaps the most transformative of early man’s accomplishments was the creation and utilization of Fire. Today, we may take our lightbulbs and lighters for granted, but in our ancient past, fire revolutionized everything. For the first time among the animal kingdom, fire was used to stave off darkness and the cold. Man could now sustain warmth, travel by night, illuminate the depths of caves, and use it as a tool to prepare food, glues, and other materials. As many creatures have an intrinsic fear of fire, the flame of a torch also became a powerful weapon and deterrent against dangerous animals and nocturnal predators. With so many benefits gained by fire, it too became an object of worship. It came to be seen as a fragmentary ember of the Sun and as an emanate emissary of God’s Light. As it took man’s ingenuity to tame it, bringing great creative benefit thereafter, fire also came to be symbolic for the mind and intellect.

When tides inexplicably changed,… when water sources suddenly flooded or dried out,… when growing seasons unexpectedly ended,… and when climates mysteriously became unbearable,… man migrated to and fro just as the other animals. After generations of subsistence roaming, man came to notice that all things follow particular patterns and cycles, including the movements of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars. Stones and markers were placed to track the Sun during the day and throughout the year, and the phases of the Moon were observed and documented each night. With further observation, it came to be understood that the Moon was related to the changing tides and the crashing of waves, and that the Sun held command over the climatic seasons, the vegetative growth cycles, and the reproductive cycles of the animals. From these observations and conclusions, man began the work of aligning rocks, monoliths, and monuments to the Solstices, Equinoxes, and significant star formations, all to aid in forecasting the cyclical changes of nature. This ancient practice is known as archeoastronomy and astrolatry.

For the first time in history, man stepped away from the instinctual responses of living moment to moment, and stepped into the intellectual understanding of time. Sundials and calendars were created to account for the cycles of both the Sun and Moon. With an increased understanding of time, man was better able to plan his labors and undertakings, anticipate the seasonal changes, and predict the reproductive and growth cycles of the plants and animals. In ancient Greece, Time was deified and anthropomorphized as the God Chronos.

With a combined understanding of time and the mechanics of natural propagation, man went on to lay one of the major foundation stones of civilization; agriculture. Man began to domesticate certain plants and animals, and their reproduction became measured and organized. With the scientific advent of agriculture, religious ceremonies and rituals were developed to mark and commemorate the seasons for mating, suckling, slaughtering, sowing, planting, reaping, and harvesting. During this period of development, many gods and deities took on fertility, reproductive, agrarian, and agricultural qualities.

As man began to mature under knowledge, culture, and civilization, he began to perceive a deepening separation between himself and the animal kingdom. This distinction led man to view himself as having a dualistic nature;

These key realizations and innovations unleashed a cascade of further developments. The use of fire led to the sciences of pottery, ceramics, brick making, smelting, casting, forging, and metallurgy. The establishment of long-term settlements and cities was made possible through political/military strength, cultural/religious cohesion, the ability to forecast cyclical & seasonal changes, and the development of agriculture. Agriculture lead to the understandings of biology, anatomy, and hereditary genetics. The growth of territorial domains, the spread of religious ideas, and the evolution of trade and economic markets brought about the necessity for formalized mathematical and writing systems.

The science of Chemistry came about as man began to take note of the effects and qualities of particular plants, natural substances, and elements. Ingredients were combined and processed into mixtures, solutions, and compounds to treat illness and injury, to bring about alternate states of consciousness, and for the benefit of further technology and invention. Early chemists were known as Medicine Men, Witch Doctors, Magicians, and eventually, Alchemists.

The stability and longevity of these cultural centers served as fertile soil for the advancement of the science of architecture. The Ancient Builders, those who discovered the secrets of physics and advanced mathematics, showcased the mastery of their craft through the design, execution, and construction of the great temples and monuments of Priesthoods, Cults, and Religions around the world. Ancient monuments all over the world embody beautiful proportions, precision of measurement, accuracy of alignment, and a conscious application of applied physics.

[In order to monopolize on scientific knowledge, the priests created exoteric religious stories (Lesser Mysteries) to conceal the underlying esoteric sciences (Greater Mysteries), while drawing the uninitiated into awe and devotion. Each additional piece of scientific insight or technological achievement was veiled by an outer worship.]

[Cro-Magnon art sites] were ritual shrines, not only for local groups, but for people from far wider areas, too. Other locations were sacred places used occasionally for major ceremonies. These are illustrated dramatically by Le Tuc d’Audoubert Cave in Ariège, France, where two carefully modeled clay bison lie in a remote, low-ceilinged chamber far from the entrance…… Ancient human heel marks can be seen around the figures in this remote and dark chamber….. There are several instances in which the footprints of both adults and children are preserved in damp clay, perhaps left by small parties of initiates who attended ceremonies in remote subterranean chambers.

Today, we know a great deal more about symbolic behavior and the art that goes with it….. Shamans, priests or spirit mediums are important members of forager and subsistence farming societies all over the world….. Perhaps, argue some experts, much of the cave art was involved with shamanistic rituals, the animal figures being images of spirit creatures or the life force for the shamans.

Some of the art may also have been associated with initiation rites, the journey through dark passages adding to the disorienting ordeal of initiation. Almost certainly, the art was a way of transmitting environmental and other knowledge from one generation to the next.

Through the utilization of water hydraulics, air/gas pneumatics, steam power, mechanics, mathematics, and physics, many temple wonders were engineered. Temple doors opened and closed by mysterious forces, clocks inexplicably kept perpetual time, inanimate statues and objects seemed to come alive and move without clear explanation,, while sounds and music miraculously manifested out of thin air.

The undereducated masses were wowed and wooed by the prediction of planetary and stellar positions, Solar and Lunar eclipses, and by the forecasting of various cycles and seasons. The benighted people were spellbound by the miraculous cures and astonishing chemical reactions conjured by the early chemists.

III. Dark Ages

The spread of common knowledge and the rise of Christianity led to the demise of temple technology. Jesus embodied not only miracles, but the Divine itself. Parlor tricks and theatrics were no longer needed to win-over religious adherents, because Christians simply relied upon their own faith and belief. As the general populace grew accustomed to new innovations, the progression and advancement of technology had a demystifying effect; magic was replaced by knowledge.

The collapse of the Roman Empire, coupled with the theocratic empowerment of Authoritarian Christian Institutions, ushered in the Dark Ages of the European Migration Period. This era was marked by the great “Barbarian Invasions” of the Roman Empire, which forever changed the traditional urban Roman culture of the provinces.

In ancient times, advanced knowledge was delicately veiled and hidden in mythology and allegory for the safekeeping of the Initiates. However controversially, as Theocratic Christianity grew in numbers, strength, and influence, the Christian Priesthood took a more oppressive stance to keep back knowledge from the masses. The religion was monopolized by the Christian Priesthood through their use of a Dead/Extinct liturgical language (Latin), by the high illiteracy rates of the common people, and due to the costly expense of handwritten scriptures. Organized, independent, and spontaneous inquisitions and trials were launched to oppose contrary or dissenting thought. Astronomers, chemists, scientists, researchers, and philosophers were wrongly persecuted as heretics, sorcerers, witches, Satanists, and Demonists.

From the Fourth Century forward, the growth and spread of Christianity, and later Islam, caused the ancient Mystery Schools to decline, recede, and all but expire. For the next several centuries, Abrahamic Monotheism became the public religion and rule of the land from Western Europe to India. Christianity and Islam converted, marginalized, oppressed, and suppressed the ancient belief systems into extinction, but there are rumors and speculations that these groups continued on in carefully secretive concealment.

Newly formed secret societies arose from within the very culture of Abrahamic Monotheistic rule. The Knights Hospitaller, the Knights Templar, and Teutonic Order originated from Christianity, while Islam birthed various Tariqa (Sufi Orders) and the infamous Hashashin (Assassins). These secretive Orders helped to create order and justice from the chaos and vacuum wrought by the conquests of Abrahamic Monotheism.

The Knightly Orders of Christianity helped to protect religious pilgrims during the Crusades, secure and transport financial assets, and developed a high level of moral and ethical conduct through the various codes of chivalry, as seen in the Latin Rule of the Knights Templars. The English Grand Master of the Templars, Aymeric de St. Maur, helped to persuade King John to sign the Magna Carta, and is even mentioned in its Preamble:

“John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, count of Anjou, to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justiciars, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants and all his officials and faithful subjects’ greeting. Know that we, out of reverence for God and for the salvation of our soul and those of all our ancestors and heirs, for the Honour of God and the advancement of Holy Church and the reform of our Kingdom, on the advice of our reverend fathers, Stephen archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Henry archbishop of Dublin, William of London, Peter of Winchester, Jocelyn of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Lincoln, Walter of Worcester, William of Coventry and Benedict of Rochester bishops, of Mater Pandulf subdeacon and member of the household of the lord pope, of brother Aimeric master of the Knights of the Temple in England and of the noblemen William the Marshal earl of Pembroke, William earl of Salisbury, William earl of Warenne, William earl of Arundle, Alan of Galloway constable of Scotland, Warin son of Gerild, Peter son of Herbert, Hubert de Burgh seneschal of Poitou, Hugh de Neville, Matthew son of Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip d’Aubigny, Robert of Ropsley, John Marshal, John son of Hugh and others, our faithful subjects.”

Grand Master of the Hashashin, Hassan-i Sabbah was a genius and polymath. He instructed his students in religious affairs, and passed on knowledge of psychology, mathematics, alchemy, and astronomy to his devout followers. The precise political assassinations allegedly carried out by the Order of Assassins influenced the political landscape of Western Asia during their time.

The various Sufi Orders instructed a highly esoteric discipline. Followers were guided along a mystical path of enlightenment through codes of conduct, philosophy, metaphysics, meditations, chants, and prayers. The great Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, more popularly known as Rumi, was a Past Master of Sufism, who left behind a legacy of beautiful poems, philosophic & religious writings, and through his legacy; the Mevlevi Order of the “Whirling Dervishes”.

Philip had acquired for himself a very powerful ally through the Papacy, for the King helped lobby and support the election of his childhood friend, Raymond Bertrand de Got, who, on June 5, 1305, was elected head of the Catholic Church, being coronated on November 14, 1305, as Pope Clement V. The Papal Court was then moved from Rome to Avignon France, marking the Avignon Papacy, which greatly strengthened the power of the French Monarchy. This relationship is exemplary of the Old World Order’s method of governance.

By the same financial motivation, Philip then attacked the Templars with false accusations of sodomy, usury, and heresy, among others. With Pope Clement V’s reluctant approval, King Philip launched an inquisition against the Knights Templars on Friday the 13th, October 1307, arresting hundreds of Knights. Under cruel and extreme torture, some Templars were forced to agree to various fabricated charges. There was a serious lack of consistency in the confessions, and none of the coerced statements corroborated one another. Furthermore, Templars that did give confessions under torture quickly recanted their statements once released.

To the pleasure of Philip’s campaign, in 1312, Pope Clement officially proclaimed that the Knights Templars were to be disbanded and outlawed. Templar assets were seized and given over to the Knights Hospitaller, with a number of Templar Knights also joining the Hospitallers.

Other Templars were not as fortunate, with many being charged and tried for fallacious crimes, such as Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, and Geoffrey de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy, who were both executed by being burned at the stake on March 18, 1314. The convicted Templars proclaimed their innocence before meeting their unfortunate ends. Coincidentally or as a divine act of retribution and justice, nonetheless ironic, Pope Clement died one month later, followed by the death of King Philip in November of the same year.

The destruction of the Templars and the execution of their Knights laid heavily upon the conscience of Pope Clement V. According to the Chinon Parchments, Pope Clement actually absolved the Knights Templars of all crimes and wrongdoings, acknowledging them to be in good standing with the Church.

We must cease the narratives that paint the Templars as wicked, which rely on the inquisitions of King Philip IV as proof. The allegations of homosexuality, spitting on crosses, worshipping idols, revering decapitated heads, and paying homage to Baphomet are all false allegations created by the dishonesty of Philip IV, supported by his puppet Pope Clement V, and perpetuated by ill-informed conspiracy theorists.

The Knights Templars were just and innocent.

V. Hope for Humanity: Renaissance, Science, & Discovery

After the dust of the Middle Ages settled, people began to reexplore and rediscover the arts, sciences, and knowledge of the Classical Age. This expedition through history reawakened the creative spark within man, enthusiastically bringing about the Renaissance and its Humanism. The guilds, craftsmen, and stonemasons were once again called upon,… poetry, sculpture, painting, music, and philosophic thought was reinvigorated,… and the old masters of mathematics and science were reexamined and studied.

Medici Family
From 1169 – 1737-CE, the Medici Family helped to herald the Renaissance. Rising to prominence through the wool guild and banking, the Medicis grew to dominate Italian politics, funded major architectural and artistic endeavors, sired three popes, and were elevated to nobility and royalty.

Filippo Brunelleschi
(1377 – April 15, 1446) Credited as the first modern engineer, Brunelleschi successfully completed the infeasible dome of the Florence Cathedral, and developed the one-point linear perspective of artistry.

Michelangelo
(March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564)
Regarded by many as the greatest artist of all time, his paintings, sculptures, and architecture are some of the most recognizable works of the Renaissance.

Niccolò Machiavelli
(May 3, 1467 – June 21, 1527) Deemed to be the founder of modern political philosophy, Machiavelli drew from his historiographical and political expertise to present his controversial political theories.

Sir Thomas More
(February 7, 1478 – July 6, 1535) Renowned politician, Sir Thomas More pioneered utopian thought through his published work, Utopia. Coining the word “utopia,” More expressed an ideal society governed by reason. He was posthumously beatified and canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as, Saint Thomas More.

William Shakespeare
(April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) A revolutionary writer, poet, and playwright, Shakespeare forever transformed the art of drama. His skillful use of vernacular helped to establish many of the nuances of the modern English language.

Galileo Galilei
(February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642) Astronomer, mathematician, and engineer, Galileo made several contributions to the science of physics, and made many observational discoveries with his Galilean telescope, including documenting the phases of Venus, charting the surface of our Moon, and locating four moons of Jupiter.

Sir Robert Boyle
(January 25, 1627 – December 31, 1691) Natural philosopher and scientist, Sir Robert Boyle was an enthusiastic experimentalist and is considered to be the progenitor of modern chemistry. He is best known for formulating Boyle’s Law.

During this overlapping-era of great change, new worlds, new peoples, and new cultures were unveiled during the Age of Discovery.

Christopher Columbus
(1451 – May 20, 1506) Navigator and explorer, Columbus encountered the Caribbean Islands and South & Central America while attempting to uncover a westward trade-route to Asia. His voyages initiated the European Age of Discovery.

Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira
(1460s – December 24, 1524) Navigator and explorer, Da Gama sailed along the African coast, becoming the first European to reach India by a maritime route.

Sir Ferdinand Magellan
(1480 – April 27, 1521) Navigator and explorer, Magellan named the Pacific Ocean after becoming the first European to encounter the Straight of Magellan. In his attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the world by sea, Magellan was killed by indigenous Filipinos, whereupon Captain Juan Sebastián Elcano took command of the expedition, successfully completing the circumnavigation.

Captain James Cook
(November 7, 1728 – February 14, 1779) Navigator, explorer, and cartographer, Cook was the first European to encounter the Hawaiian Islands, the eastern coast of Australia, and was only 75 miles away from discovering Antarctica before retreating from oceanic ice.

As the Classics were being rediscovered, the embers of the ancient Mystery Traditions were rekindled. It was also from the Renaissance that the earliest existent documents of Freemasonry originate. The Regius Poem (Halliwell Manuscript) is dated between 1390-1450 AD/CE. This manuscript details work duties of Stone Masons, a code of morals, ethics, and conduct, a mythological history of the Craft, and also encourages the pursuit of the Seven Liberal Arts & Sciences; Grammar, Dialect (Logic), Rhetoric, Music, Astronomy, Arithmetic, and Geometry. The Cooke Manuscript, dated to approximately 1450 AD/CE, is said to be the best and most complete example of the Old Charges.

The oldest existent record of a non-Operative Mason being entered into the Masonic Fraternity dates to 1634, with Lord Alexander, Sir Anthony Alexander, and Sir Alexander Strachan being Initiated into the historic Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel) No. 1. This Scottish Lodge is the oldest existing Lodge in the world, with documented minutes dated to July 1599. In 1641, the Lodge of Edinburgh documents another historic event:

“1641 when Robert Moray was initiated into the Lodge which had convened at Newcastle; the first non-operative to be admitted on English soil.”

‘October 16, 4.30pm – I was made a freemason at Warrington in Lancashire with Colonel Henry Mainwaring [a Roundhead parliamentarian friend related to his father-in-law] of Karincham in Cheshire. The names of those that were then at the Lodge, Mr Richard Penket Worden, Mr James Collier, Mr Richard Sankey, Henry Littler, John Ellam, Richard Ellam and Hugh Brewer.’

This is the first evidence of the initiation of an English speculative mason – notwithstanding the fact that those present and listed would have certainly been initiated at an earlier date.”

From the fruits of Classical Antiquity, the seeds of the Renaissance were plucked, and these seeds came to blossom as the Age of Enlightenment. This Age of Reason saw a creative transition of mankind unlike any before. Mankind’s pursuit of all endeavors expanded, progressed, and improved by leaps and bounds. In mass, mankind dared beyond the bounds set by monarchy & theocracy, favoring the legitimacy offered by reason and science.

Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat)
(January 18, 1689 – February 10, 1755) A revolutionary political philosopher, Montesquieu proposed that the best method to avoid despotism is through the separation of governmental powers. His ideas have went on to influence modern political theory, and have been regarded in many governmental systems of the modern era.

Sir Robert Walpole
(August 26, 1676 – March 18, 1745) Regarded as the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole lobbied for peaceful foreign relations and a decrease of domestic taxation.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
(November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778) Preeminent figure of the Enlightenment, Voltaire revolutionized the public consciousness. Writer, poet, and philosopher, Voltaire helped to progress the ideas of freedom and justice in all domains; religious, political, and private.

Frederick the Great
(January 24, 1712 – August 17, 1786) King of Prussia, Frederick II was a brilliant military theorist and battle tactician. Like the Italian Medici patrons, Frederick the Great commissioned many architectural and artistic works of the Enlightenment.

Denis Diderot
(October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) Writer and critic, Diderot co-founded the monumental Encyclopédie. This Encyclopedia embodied the consciousness of the Enlightenment, with literary contributions from academics, scientists, and priests.

Claude Adrien Helvétius
(February 26, 1715 – December 26, 1771) Philosopher, writer, encyclopedist, and philanthropist, Helvétius is best known for his literary work, De l’esprit (On Mind), which questioned religious-based morality. Helvétius posited that humans are born blank and equally capable, that we are products of our experiences, environment, education, and our pursuits of pleasure.

Jean-Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert
(November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) Mathematician, philosopher, and co-editor of Encyclopédie, d’Alembert made several contributions to mathematics, physics, and mechanics, including the d’Alembert Principle, and a new theory of motion.

Sir Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) Writer, poet, and scientist, Goethe is considered to be Germany’s greatest modern literary figure, and his works have been hailed by prominent public figures around the world.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) Pianist, composer, and musician, Mozart stands as one of the greatest composers of all time. His artful transmutation of emotion into music set new standards throughout all musical genres and types.

Nearly two decades after being made a Freemason, Sir Robert Moray helped to establish the oldest scientific think-tank in current existence; The Royal Society. On November 28, 1660, he attended the pivotal lecture by fellow Freemason, Professor Sir Christopher Wren, now known as the “Committee of 12” meeting at Gresham College. Also in attendance were William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine, Sir Paul Neile, William Balle, John Wilkins, Robert Boyle, Jonathan Goddard, William Petty, Lawrence Rook, and Abraham Hill. Weekly meetings were held to discuss innovations in the natural sciences and mathematics. Sir Robert Moray lobbied and persuaded King Charles II to grant the group a royal charter, which was signed on July 15, 1662. Two additional charters were granted to extend further privileges to the newly formed “Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge”, listing King Charles II as patron and founder.

The Royal Society helped to establish modern science by creating a platform for the discussion and dissemination of science and experimentation, promoting the scientific method, and pioneering academic peer-review after publishing the first journal dedicated to science in 1665; Philosophical Transactions. The Royal Society hailed the groundbreaking work of Sir Francis Bacon, and Sir Isaac Newton served as the Society’s President from 1703-1727. In the pursuit and promotion of scientific knowledge, a vast number of “Fellows of the Royal Society” have been confirmed as being Freemasons by the “Library and Museum of Freemasonry” in London.

VII. Revolution: Novus Ordo Seclorum (New Order of the Ages)

The conscious awakening of mankind, stimulated by the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution, Age of Discovery, and the Industrial Revolution, gave birth to a spirit of social revolution that soon spread like wildfire throughout the Americas and Europe; Age of Revolution.

Freemasonry, as an institution, did not tackle the tyranny of the Old World Order, but instead, it was by the hand of the free-thinking people who were supported by the positive virtues that Freemasonry espoused, such as Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence, Justice, Faith, Hope, Charity, Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth.

The 13 Colonies of Great Britain in North America were the first collective society to successfully revolt against the Old World Order. On July 4, 1776, the United States of America formally declared independence from the British Crown and State of Great Britain. Instead of being ruled by Monarchy or Theocracy, the United States of America established a constitutional democratic republic that elected its government officials, established a separation of governmental powers, guaranteed the citizens certain unalienable rights, and saw to the separation of church and state. The Constitution of the United States also allowed for editions and amendments to be made to the law of the land, foreseeing the changing needs of future developments. The integrity of the framework of the United States allowed for the future abolishment of slavery, voting and civil rights for minorities and former-Africans (slave & free), and equality for women.

Many Freemasons can be counted as Founding Fathers of the United States [1][2][3].

George Washington
(February 11, 1731 – December 14, 1799) First President of the United States of America, hailed as the; “Father of the Country”. Washington, as Commander-in-Chief, successfully led the Continental Army to victory during the American Revolutionary War for independence. He oversaw many conventions of brilliant men, which drafted and implemented the legal framework of the new nation.

Benjamin Franklin
(January 6, 1705 – April 17, 1790) Statesman, diplomat, political philosopher, scientist, and inventor. Franklin is known as the; “First American”, and is the only person to sign all four; the “Declaration of Independence”, the “Treaty of Alliance, Amity, and Commerce with France”, the “Treaty of Peace between England, France, and the United States”, and the “U.S. Constitution”.

Paul Revere
(December 21, 1734 – May 10, 1818) Patriot, silversmith, and metallurgist, Paul Revere has been immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1860 poem; “Paul Revere’s Ride”. On the night of April 18, 1775, along with the efforts of three other riders, Paul Revere helped to warn the colonies of the British Military’s advancement into colonial territory.

John Hancock
(January 23, 1737 – October 8, 1793) Statesman and politician, John Hancock was the fourth and thirteen President of the Continental Congress. He is best known for being the first to sign the Declaration of Independence. Due to the flamboyant and oversized style of his signature on the document, his name; “John Hancock”, has since become synonymous in the U.S. with the word, “signature” itself.

Prince Hall
(1735-1738 – 1807) Political philosopher, abolitionist, civil rights advocate, Revolutionary War veteran, and founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry. Prince Hall, a freeman, lobbied for the end of slavery, civil rights and education for African-Americans, as well as petitioning the military enlistment of African-Americans during the Revolutionary War.

John Jay
(December 23, 1745 – May 17, 1829) Politician and diplomat, John Jay contributed five essays to The Federalist Papers, served as sixth President of the Continental Congress, served as the first Chief Justice of the U.S., and as Governor, he ratified legislation to end slavery in New York.

John Paul Jones
(July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792) Naval commander and military tactician, John Paul Jones won many naval battles against Britain during the Revolutionary War.

James Monroe
(April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) Fifth President of the United States and a veteran of the Revolutionary War, Monroe is considered the last president categorized as a “Founding Father”. He secured U.S. sovereignty into the future through the Monroe Doctrine, and helped to expand the territory of the U.S. through the Luisiana Purchase, the acquisition of Florida, the Treaty of 1818, and the Adams–Onís Treaty.

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
(September 6, 1757 – May 20, 1834) A leading figure during the French Revolution, Lafayette, a French Nobleman, fought with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He was commissioned as an Honorary Major General, and became a close friend of George Washington.

Edmund Burke
(January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797) Irish statesman and British politician, Burke lobbied in recognition for the grievances of the American colonialists, and tried to avoid war by issuing a speech reasoning for peace and reconciliation with America.

In addition to the many delegates, representatives, and attendees who were Freemasons, as many as 9 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 9 signers of the Articles of Confederation, 13 signers of the Constitution, and 14 U.S. Presidents can be verified as Freemasons. The Freemasons involved with the founding of the United States did not erect a totalitarian system, but instead, helped to create a Novus Ordo Seclorum (New Order of the Ages) based upon Equality, Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness for “We the People”.

VIII. Order of Illuminati

“Enlightening the Understanding by the Sun of Reason which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.”
– Adam Weishaupt

The Bavarian Order of Illuminati has been the object of many conspiracy theories, most of which are unfounded. In modern times, the former-Illuminati have been accused of many falsities, ranging from being Atheists, Satanists, Jesuits, Rothschild agents, propagators of evil and chaos, and have even been blamed for the globalist agenda of a New World Order and One World Government.

Adam Weishaupt was born February 6, 1748, in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. His father was Johann Georg Weishaupt, professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt. Johann Georg Weishaupt died suddenly in 1753 when Adam was five years old, whereupon Johann Adam Freiherr von Ickstatt, Adam’s godfather, took custody of the boy and raised him to adulthood. Johann Adam von Ickstaff was a professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt, and served as the Director of the University. Dr. Ickstaff helped to reform the University of Ingolstadt according to ideals of the Enlightenment. Adam Weishaupt received a doctorate of law from the University of Ingolstadt in 1768, and in 1772, Dr. Weishaupt became Professor of Canon Law.

The former-Illuminati was a secret society intent on liberating and uplifting mankind. The Order focused on reason, morality, and virtue as a path to happiness and enlightened Illumination.

“And what is this general object? The happiness of the human race.”

“This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. The proficients in this order are therefore justly named the Illuminated. And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.”

– Adam Weishaupt

“Morality is the fruit of Illumination. Duties and rights are reciprocal. Illumination shows us our rights, and Morality follows; that Morality which teaches us to be of age, to be out of wardenship, to be full grown, and to walk without the leading-strings of Priests and Princes.”

– Adam Weishaupt

Hoping to spread freedom, liberty, and equality throughout the world, Weishaupt sought to curtail the dominance, subjugation, and repression imposed by the authoritarian monarchs and theocracies of the Old World Order.

“Despotism has robbed them of their liberty. How can the weak obtain protection? Only by union [unity]; but this is rare. Nothing can bring this about but hidden societies. Hidden schools of wisdom are the means which will one day free men from their bonds. These have in all ages been the archives of nature, and the rights of men; and by them shall human nature be raised from her fallen state. Princes and nations shall vanish from the earth. The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.”

– Adam Weishaupt

In a centuries-old misogynistic world, the former-Illuminati acknowledged the ability and potentiality of women, and discussed admitting women into the Order. The Bavarian Illuminati also conceived of improving the social status of women, and aimed to bring about sexual equality.

“The proposal of Hercules to establish a Minerval school for girls is excellent, but requires much circumspection. Philo and I have long conversed on this subject. We cannot improve the world without improving women, who have such a mighty influence on the men.

Leave them to the scope of their own fancies, and they will soon invent mysteries which will put us to the blush, and create an enthusiasm which we can never equal. They will be our great apostles. Reflect on the respect, nay the awe and terror inspired by the female mystics of antiquity.”

– Minos

Dr. Weishaupt envisioned a society where everyone contributes to the greater good by working in a career that best suits their natural skills and talents. The Order of Illuminati did not work toward the interests of the banks or corporations, but was instead ambitious for the empowerment of all.

“To fit man by illumination for active virtue, to engage him to it by the strongest motives, to render the attainment of it easy and certain, by finding employment for every talent, and by placing every talent in it’s proper sphere of action, so that all, without feeling any extraordinary effort, and in conjunction with, and in completion of ordinary business, shall urge forward with united powers, the general task. This indeed will be an employment suited to noble natures, grand in it’s views, and delightful in it’s exercise.”

– Adam Weishaupt

Despite popular conspiracy theories, the Bavarian Illuminati was not anti-religious or anti-Christian. Instead, they proclaimed Jesus to be the Grand Master of their esoteric traditions, and sought to dissolve prejudice, superstition, and authoritative doctrine and dogma.

“But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to Christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasible, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistible. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.”

– Adam Weishaupt

“Jesus of Nazareth, the Grand Master of our Order, appeared at a time when the world was in the utmost disorder, and among a people who for ages had groaned under the yolk of bondage. He taught them the lessons of reason. To be more effective, he took the aid of religion, of opinions which were current, and in a very clever manner, he combined his secret doctrines with the popular religion, and with the customs which lay to his hand. In these he wrapped up his lessons, he taught by parables. Never did any prophet lead men so easily and so securely along the road to liberty. He concealed the precious meaning and consequences of his doctrines; but fully disclosed them to a chosen few.

He speaks of a Kingdom of the upright and faithful; His Father’s Kingdom, who’s children we also are. Let us only take Liberty and Equality as the great aims of his doctrines, and Morality as the way to attain it, and everything in the New Testament will be comprehensible; and Jesus will appear as the Redeemer of slaves. Man has fallen from the condition of Liberty and Equality, the State of Pure Nature. He is under subordination and civil bondage, arising from the vices of man. This is the Fall, and Original Sin. The Kingdom of Grace is that restoration which may be brought about by Illumination and a just Morality. This is the New Birth. When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. By subdoing our passions, or limiting their cravings, we may recover a great deal of our original worth, and live in a state of grace. This is the redemption of men, this is accomplished by Morality; and when this is spread over the world, we have the Kingdom of the Just.”

– Adam Weishaupt

“We must consider the ruling propensities of every age of the world. At present the cheat and tricks of the priests have roused all men against them, and against Christianity. But, at the same time superstition and fanaticism rule with unlimited domination, and the understanding of man really seems to be going backwards. Our task, therefore, is doubled. We must give such an account of things, that fanatics shall not be alarmed, and that shall, not withstanding, excite a spirit of free inquiry. We must not throw away the good with the bad, the child with the dirty water, but we must make the secret doctrines of Christianity be received as the secrets of genuine Free Masonry.

But farther, we have to deal with the despotism of Princes. This increases every day. But then, the spirit of freedom breathes and sighs in every corner, and, by the assistance of hidden schools of Wisdom, Liberty, and Equality, the imprescribable rights of man, warm and glow in every breast. We must therefore unite these extremes. We proceed in this manner.

Jesus Christ established no new religion; he would only set religion and reason in their ancient rights. For this purpose he would unite men in a common bond. He would fit them for this by spreading a just morality, by enlightening the understanding, and by assisting the mind to shake off all prejudices.

He would teach all men, in the first place, to govern themselves. Rulers would then be needless, and equality and liberty would take place without any revolution, by the natural and gentle operation of reason and expediency. This great teacher allows himself to explain every part of the Bible in conformity to these purposes; and he forbids all wrangling among his scholars, because every man may there find a reasonable application to his peculiar doctrines. I told you, says he, but you could not bear it. Many therefore were called, but few were chosen.”

– Adolph Freiherr Knigge

Another popular theory postulates that the former-Illuminati was an extension of the Jesuit’s Society of Jesus. A closer look into the context of historic details will easily dispel this rumor.

A common misconception alleges that the very name; “Illuminati,” points to a connection with the Jesuit Society of Jesus. Unlike the misinformed conspiracies that point to a 15th and 16th Century origin of the term, “Illuminati,” we actually first encounter the term during the 3rd Century. Mani, the Persian Prophet of Manichaeism, was known as; the “Supreme Illuminator” and the “Apostle of Light”. Mani called his new belief system; the “Religion of Light”, and his followers refer to his imprisonment and death as; the “Passion of the Illuminator”.

One day while street preaching, Society of Jesus founder; Ignatius of Loyola, was approached by Alumbrados women. In a fully public display, the Alumbrados fell before Ignatius and began to convulse, undulate, and consummate ecstatic trance. This event aroused the Inquisition, and Ignatius was detained for questioning. Ignatius firmly denied any affiliation with the Alumbrados, and was cleared of any wrongdoing or involvement. Furthermore, Ignatius remained a skeptical critic of the Alumbrados mystics, and even opposed the living saint and Alumbrados devotee; Magdalena de la Cruz. Ignatius of Loyola was never an Alumbrados, and never referred to the Society of Jesus as Alumbrados nor Illuminati, instead, using the names; “Amigos en El Senor” (Friends in the Lord), and “Company of Jesus”. Ignatius never conformed to the teachings of the Alumbrados, instead, he cultivated spiritual mysticism by Simple Contemplation (contemplative prayer).

Adam Weishaupt’s organization does not stem from, nor pay homage or tribute to Manichaeism, the Alumbrados, or the Jesuits. With proper research, it is plainly evident that all of these groups have different goals, different beliefs, and different methodologies. Of further relevance, Weishaupt’s organization was initially named; Bund der Perfektibilisten (Union of Perfectibilists). Believing that; “Perfectiblists” was not a suitable name, Weishaupt sought group consensus to change the name to; ”Order of the Bee”, which was rejected by fellow members. After two years, the Perfectibilists finally changed their name to; Illuminatenorden (Order of Illuminati).

During the 18th Century, the papacy and various monarchs began a campaign to suppress the Society of Jesus, for the fear of the growth of Jesuit power and the spread of their influence. As this campaign entered Bavarian politics, it had a direct consequence for the University of Ingolstadt. The Professorship of Canon Law had traditionally been held by members of the Society of Jesus, whereupon their ostracization left this position vacant. Weishaupt’s godfather, Johann Adam Freiherr von Ickstatt, was a modest critic of the Jesuits, no doubt influencing young Weishaupt’s views of the Society. To the dismay of the entrenched Jesuits, Adam Weishaupt ascended to the professorship, ending the Jesuits control of Ingolstadt Canon Law. This “changing of the guard” stirred the Jesuits into envy and disdain of Adam Weishaupt.

Moreover, Weishaupt used his academic, social, and Illuminati associates to collect information about the Jesuits, which he then used to attack the outlawed Society by revealing their activities to the authorities. At the behest of Weishaupt, in 1781, Adolph Freiherr Knigge wrote and published several articles and pamphlets exposing and criticizing the Jesuits. Despite popular conspiracy theories claiming otherwise, the Order of Illuminati has always been at-odds with the Society of Jesus. Even through our age of readily accessible facts and information, the fanciful myth continues to persist, that, the former-Illuminati had fully infiltrated and influenced the Freemasonry of today.

Almost a year after the inception of the Bund der Perfektibilisten (Union of Perfectibilists), which was later renamed to Illuminatenorden (Order of the Illuminati), Adam Weishaupt joined the Freemasonic Lodge “Prudence”, of the Rite of Strict Observance. Weishaupt became a Freemason in a scheme to counterfeit and incorporate its system and secrets into his own Bund der Perfektibilisten. Dissatisfied and disillusioned with the French and Scottish traditions that he found, Adam Weishaupt and Adolph Freiherr Knigge sought to amalgamate their Illuminati degrees with the three degrees of “Blue Lodge” Freemasonry, and then propagate their Illuminati Mysteries as higher degrees of Freemasonry.

This goal of cultivating a new Freemasonic-Illuminati resulted in the usurpation of Lodge “Theodore of the Good Council”, which was warranted on March 21, 1779, by the Grand Lodge of Prussia, called the Royal York of Friendship. In June of 1782, the Illuminati-controlled, Lodge Theodore of the Good Council, declared independence from both the Royal York of Friendship Grand Lodge and the Rite of Strict Observance. After this move, Illuminati Lodge Theodore then set itself up as a Mother Grand Lodge, and by 1783 presided over seven Lodges. By 1784, there were 650 confirmed members of the Illuminati, with Weishaupt claiming as many as 2,500 members.

“We must allow the underlings to imagine (but without telling them the truth) that we direct all the Free Mason lodges, and even all others, and that the greatest Monarchs are under our guidance, which indeed is here and there the case.”

– Adam Weishaupt

Contrary to popular belief, the Order of Illuminati was only able to hold sway over Freemasonic Lodges in its vicinity, and never established itself outside of Germany. By the time Lodge Theodore became an Illuminati stronghold, the traditions of Freemasonry had already been established by the Grand Lodge Movements of England, Ireland, France, Scotland, and the United States. Instead of accepting the incomplete and invented Illuminati precepts as “higher degree Freemasonry,” the authentic Grand Lodges and Grand Orients accepted appendant bodies such as the Holy Royal Arch, the Order of Mark Master Masons, the Knights Templar, and the Scottish Rite.

Internal dissent and organized propaganda attacks led to the decline and ruin of the Bavarian Illuminati. In a 1784 power-struggle, the Illuminati’s top recruiter and ritual creator, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, remitted his Illuminati membership with the blessing of Weishaupt, consequently, extinguishing much of the creativity, enthusiasm, and vigor of the Order. The Jesuits, Rosicrucians, and other religious clerics continued their onslaught of propaganda publications and rumors against the Illuminati.

The very real threat that the Illuminati posed to the repressive Old World Order, coupled with the untrue accusations of Illuminati malevolence, resulted in Charles Theodore, Prince-Elector of Bavaria issuing an edit on March 2, 1785, outlawing all secret societies, including the Illuminati. Membership plummeted, and the Illuminati-influenced Lodges either closed or reorganized according to more traditional and authentic Freemasonic Obediences, dropping all of the pseudo-traditions of Weishaupt and Knigge.

Exiled, Weishaupt received asylum and assistance from Illuminist, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in 1787. Dethroned and defeated, Adam Weishaupt lived out the rest of his incapacitated days in Gotha, writing several treatises on Illuminism and Illuminati apologetics. The Order of Illuminati perished with Adam Weishaupt.

Adam Weishaupt’s literary works have only become easily accessible in our modern era, and some books have recently been translated into English for the first time. A reading of this original source material, and critics agree, will lay to rest the misconceptions of a malevolent Order of Illuminati.

The semantics, symbolism, and imagery of Light, has become obscure. Often in our popular culture, references to Light, Enlightenment, Illuminism, and Illumination are taken as wicked, Satanic, and Luciferian. This erroneous opinion harkens to a sad and unfortunate mistranslation of Isaiah 14:12

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!”

Lucifer is Latin for, “Light-Bringing/Bearer”, and as a Venusian epithet; “Morning Star”.

In this Biblical instance, “Lucifer, son of the morning”, is an outdated and inaccurate translation, originating from St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate Bible. The myth and imagery of a Satanic Lucifer was then perpetuated by the King James Version of the Bible, and the fictional epic poems; Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

In place of “Lucifer”, the original Hebrew actually reads;“Heylel (הֵילֵ֣ל) Ben (בֶּן־) Shachar (שָׁ֑חַר)”

Which literally means;“Heylel, the Son of Shachar”.

The word, “Heylel” (הֵילֵ֣ל), is rather enigmatic. According to several Concordances, Heylel is defined as: “a shining one” and “star of the morning”.

According to “The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible”, by Jeff A. Benner, the roots for “Heylel” center around the concepts; “Behold”, “Look toward”, and “Shining”.

Literally, we can say (Heyl-El Ben Shachar):“Behold the Shining One of El/God, Son of Shachar”

Shachar is synonymous with the specific light of dawn, not light in general.

The Hebrew words for “Light” are typically derived from the root “Nun-Hey-Resh” (N-H-R), such as “Neharah”, “Nehir”, and “Nahar”. This is similar to Arabic’s word for light, being, “Nur”.

Shachar is a Canaanite deity representative of the “Morning Star,” which is Venus on the eastern horizon before sunrise.

Now we have;“Heyl-El, the Son of the Morning Star”

Deduced;“Heyl-El, Son of Venus”
“Behold the Shining One of El, Son of Venus”

There is no Satan or Lucifer here. Red-flagged mistranslation! It’s overdo that we cast aside the Lucifer connection to Satan or any Fallen Angel.

According to Biblical studies, Light is synonymous with God, holiness, truth, life, goodness, morality, and salvation.

In 1 John 1:5, it is written;• “God is Light; in Him there is no darkness at all.”

In Revelation 22:16, Jesus is mentioned to be Lucifer, a.k.a., The Morning Star;• “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright (lampros) and morning (prōinos) star (astēr).”

But that’s ok, because we’ve already established that “Lucifer” holds absolutely no connotation to anything wicked.

In Matthew 5:16, Jesus mentions his followers as Bearers of Light and is glorifying of Light, advising;• “Let your Light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in Heaven.”

In the 1st and 9th Chapters of John, Jesus is described as the Light of the world;• “In him was life, and that life was the Light of all mankind.”
• “While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”

“Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His Light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His Light whom He wills. And Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things.”

The Dictionary of Symbolism, compiled by the University of Michigan Fantasy and Science Fiction, reiterates the above symbolic qualities of Light.

The terms “Lucifer” and “Satan” are often used in occult writings according to their literal etymological meanings in a symbolical, allegorical, and esoteric sense;

Lucifer: (Light, Knowledge, Mind, Consciousness, Higher Self)

Satan: (Adversary, Barbarism, Ignorance, Insensible, Lower Self)

This usually represents a dualistic view of psychological and universal archetypes.

There is also the beautiful astronomical allegory of Venus bearing the Light of the Sun (Life, Knowledge, Safety) which dispels the darkness (death, ignorance, fear) of night.

X. New World Order

The Novus Ordo Seclorum, based upon Freedom, Liberty, Equality, and Justice, has been subverted by the agenda of the New World Order. This agenda from without, arose within the United States through the central banks.

Instead of muddying the waters with my own opinion, I will allow others more qualified to articulate the battle between the Novus Ordo Seclorum and the New World Order.

“But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”

– George Washington to Jabez Bowen, January 9, 1787

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in the Constitution or Confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.”

– Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, November 26, 1798

“Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.”

“And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

– Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, May 28, 1816

“And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.”

– Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816

“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.”

– John Adams to John Taylor, March 12, 1819

“The bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!”

– Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren, July 8, 1832

“It is maintained by some that the bank is a means of executing the constitutional power “to coin money and regulate the value thereof.” Congress have established a mint to coin money and passed laws to regulate the value thereof. The money so coined, with its value so regulated, and such foreign coins as Congress may adopt are the only currency known to the Constitution. But if they have other power to regulate the currency, it was conferred to be exercised by themselves, and not to be transferred to a corporation. If the bank be established for that purpose, with a charter unalterable without its consent, Congress have parted with their power for a term of years, during which the Constitution is a dead letter. It is neither necessary nor proper to transfer its legislative power to such a bank, and therefore unconstitutional.”

– Andrew Jackson, Veto Message, July 10, 1832

“The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender. The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept.”

– James A. Garfield, Inaugural Address, March 14, 1881

“However it has come about, it is more important still that the control of credit also has become dangerously centralized. It is the mere truth to say that the financial resources of the country are not at the command of those who do not submit to the direction and domination of small groups of capitalists who wish to keep the economic development of the country under their own eye and guidance.

The great monopoly in this country is the monopoly of big credits. So long as that exists, our old variety and freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated.

The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

This is the greatest question of all, and to this statesmen must address themselves with an earnest determination to serve the long future and the true liberties of men.”

– Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom: A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”

Despite being held as spurious, I opine this unverified Thomas Jefferson quote to precisely surmise the perpetrators of the New World Order:

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.”

“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence, economic, political, even spiritual, is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”

– John F. Kennedy, The President and the Press, April 27, 1961

Although there are many people working toward good and honest intentions, certain individuals, groups, and corporations that are associated with the aforementioned Think Tanks and Financial Institutions comprise many of the public figures pursuing the globalist agenda for a New World Order and One World Government.

It is a grave error to refer to the N.W.O. movement as being synonymous with the former-Illuminati. This One World Government is clearly at-odds with the philosophy of Adam Weishaupt, and by their methodology, are clearly removed from Illuminism, Enlightenment, and/or Illumination.

Many fraternities, societies, and organizations may use similar symbols, but these groups have widely varying goals, focuses, and different interpretations and beliefs about those common symbols. Figures of the N.W.O. movement may belong to secretive fraternities and societies, but this does not mean that they are the long-extinct Order of Illuminati.

Freemasonry’s close affiliation with the early development of the United States and the European movements that advocated Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy, has led many to assume that Freemasonry has never relinquished its influence over matters foreign and domestic. Freemasonry has, therefore, been blamed for the many wars and travesties of our modern era. The truth of the matter is absolutely contrary to this supposition.

Freemasonic membership has been suffering a decline in recent years, and has bolstered less members of prominent significance than in previous times. Either in correlation or by coincidence, as Freemasonry slides into cultural irrelevance, the world at large appears to be sliding away from traditional morals & virtues, and further into chaos and decay.

It has been alleged that the New World Order and One World Government is being spearheaded, not by regular Freemasons, but by “higher-up” Freemasons. This amateur allegation has not been substantiated, nor has a viable theory been presented to explain who or what these “higher-up Freemasons” are.

There is no international centralized authority in Regular Freemasonry. Countries and States are partitioned between the Jurisdictions of sovereign Grand Lodges who are in mutual recognition of one another. Each Jurisdiction is administered by its Grand Lodge, which is presided over by a Grand Master, assisted by his Officers. All subordinate Lodges within each Jurisdiction fall under the authority of the Grand Lodge. Subordinate Lodges are presided over by the Master of the Lodge, assisted by the Officers of the Lodge.

The 3rd Degree of Master Mason is the highest degree in Craft / Blue Lodge Freemasonry. Appendant Bodies offer additional degrees, however, 3rd Degree Master Mason remains the senior degree in Regular Freemasonry. Members of Appendant Bodies, that have been conferred with additional degrees, hold no additional authority or command over 3rd Degree Master Masons or the Lodges.

The most well known Appendant Bodies are the Scottish Rite and York Rite. It is falsely believed that a 32nd or 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason, or a York Rite Knights Templar is granted overt or clandestine power over “lower level” Freemasons. Prestige and pride do come with Appendant degrees and chapters, but these Scottish and York Rite Freemasons are still held as equals to 3rd Degree Master Masons in the bodies of Grand Lodges and their Regular Lodges.

The most senior members of Craft Freemasonry include Master Masons, Officers, Lodge Masters, and Grand Masters. The highest authority in the Scottish Rite is the Supreme Council, while the highest authority in the York Rite includes the Grand Chapter, Grand Council, and Grand Commandery.

Below, are many links exhibiting these “higher-up” Freemasons. If any evil N.W.O. Globalist is a “higher-up Freemason”, then surely they would be mentioned somewhere in these membership lists. If the evil N.W.O. Globalists are even more elevated in rank than these lists, then surely they would have left a trail in these “lower levels” on their ascent to the “higher levels”.

“Higher-up Freemasons” ushering in a malevolent New World Order is a fabricated myth.

The Old World Order was a ruling system based upon the cooperation between kings and priests to subjugate the people. Through the separate efforts of the Knights Templars with their chivalric code and endorsement of the Magna Carta,… Freemasonry’s influence during the Enlightenment and Age of Revolution,… and the former-Illuminati’s propagation of philosophic Illuminism,… the Old World Order was brought down and the Novus Ordo Seclorum (New Order of the Ages) was established. This New Order of the Ages based upon Freedom, Liberty, Equality, and Justice was short-lived, as the globalist tentacles of the central banking system’s congressional-military-industrial-complex began to slowly erect the framework of the New World Order.

• Old World Order
Kings and Priesthoods rule the people through force and superstition

Know thyself. Knowledge of oneself is the only real knowledge, for as one understands oneself, only then may one truly understand another. Hence, the Oracle of Delphi proclaiming to know thyself, for within each of us, all is contained.

“We are created in God’s image. Male and female (in one) were created.”

We, in our cosmic aspect are very superior to that which is commonly looked upon as a “human” which is described in books on anthropology, anatomy, etc. Such external sciences deal only with the grossly material body of external terrestrial body, while the essential body of macrocosmic and microscopic is beyond the reach of external observation. In the study of the human, as a cosmic being, there are only three aspects of one. These three subjects are God, nature, and man/woman; and neither one of them may be understood in its inner essence without understanding of the other two. External science, natural philosophy”‘ and theology seek to separate them.

They regard us, as being separated, distinct and independent of nature, and nature as something independent of us; while God, they know nothing and regard the divine power, which is the cause of all life, as if it were something external to nature and to us, and beyond their reach. For this reason the “human” of modem science has become an unnatural being, without any conceivable object for existence, and nature is an organism evolved by accident and subject to no other than mechanically acting law. The divine, spiritual, creative, and hidden powers in us, and in nature, are entirely removed from the field of perception of the “rationalist.”

Each of us, as a whole, may be conceived of as a planetary spirit, a self-conscious, luminous sphere of unimaginable extent, as in fact, as present, the mental sphere of our mind has no defined limits; it reaches as far as thoughts can go. We were created for the purpose of being the image of God. The glory of God is residing in us, and we are penetrated by the light of divine love.

Within each of us everything is contained; God, the Christ, the angels, the celestial and terrestrial’s kingdoms, and the powers of hell. Outside of us is nothing of which we can conceive, we can know nothing except that which exists in our minds. No god or devil, no spirit or any power whatever can act upon us unless it centers into our constitution. Only that which exists in us has existence for God/The All.

Without a realization of this fact, the mysteries of religion will remain incomprehensible. It may be interesting and amusing to speculate about all the different gods and celestial hosts that go to make the pantheons of the various nations, but such a study does not constitute real knowledge. Only when our spiritual perceptions are unfolded and we attain divine knowledge of self, then will we know the Christ and all the celestial powers – whose aggregate goes to make up the kingdom of God existing within ourselves.

The spirit of God resides from eternity to eternity only in heaven -that is to say, in our own essence, is the power of the majesty. When it became inbreathed into our image, then was heaven in us, for God willed to manifest to us, as in an image created after The All, and to manifest the great wonders of eternal wisdom.

God’s greatest gift to us is mind. The fact that each of us has a mind which is part and parcel of God’s mind makes us an infinitely creative being. God created us to enjoy eternal life in Paradise in a state of paradisiacal perfection. Divine love illumined the interior, as the sun is illuminating the world.

The term “Paradise” means a state of purity and innocence and happiness, but not necessarily knowledge. We have had to learn to know evil so as to be able to realize good. Good being the primal will of God.

In paradise there is perfect life without disturbance, and a perpetual day, and the paradisiacal soul is clear like transparent glass, and is fully penetrated by the light of the divine sun.

Our bodies likewise appeared luminous, because our terrestrial substance is absorbed in the celestial essence. It radiates a pure, divine light.

This was so and will become so as truth reveals itself because our original thoughts and will are pure, and therefore the spirit of “The All” (the union of will and thought) manifested itself in producing a pure and luminous form, not burdened with the gross material elements which form at present the bodies of human beings.

“Then, as now, our body is the product of our own thoughts.”The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme– Franz Hartmann M.D.

The above statements are taken from the life and doctrines of Jacob Boehme, a great Christian alchemist, who wrote in the 16th century. Boehme was a true Hermeticist bringing through the ageless wisdom.

Boehme’s conception of the allegory of “the fall” is fundamental to understanding the relationship between Hermetics and the esoteric interpretation of the Bible which is rooted in Qabalah. Man’s fall in reality was a fall in consciousness – a forgetting of himself, a falling away from the Holy Spirit or divine inspiration which gives life meaning. Man’s fall or apparent fall was known to God as it is the Divine plan which is occurring now for us to awaken in this New Age, the Age of Aquarius, to our true identity and divinity and realize that the Christ, that is the pure intelligence of God, is contained within each of us.

Man’s “fall” was necessary so to speak so that we could gain knowledge in knowing and being able to discriminate between good and evil, for in God’s infinite love he gave us free will. The problem of evil has vexed theologians and serious students of philosophy throughout the past age. The understanding of the devil, which is lived spelled backward, is the secret to liberation for in understanding the darkness, the darkness is no more. The word Devil is Diabolus, an adversary in Latin. Lucifer, seen as the devil or the antichrist in exoteric Christianity is really the bringer of light, for Lucifer means light-bearer.

How, may you ask, can the Devil be a light-bearer? In our quest for knowledge of self, a resistance, or creative tension was placed into the universal plan regarding our evolution. For us to evolve, to grow and to learn, a resistance was placed upon us. The agency which created this resistance was none other than Lucifer, who played the heavy or dark force.

Lucifer in reality is God’s greatest archangel, for he had to play out with total realness all that we did, not want to know or see about himself. Lucifer means bearer of light.

Lucifer brought to our experience the realization that God is both the light and darkness. The light and the dark co-exist within the mind of God in perfect harmony. We, to gain insight and understanding of self, have to realize and acknowledge that both forces co-exist within ourselves as is with God, and that which we call the Devil is nothing more than a product of our own imagination. The Devil or Satan is none other than that agency within us which creates the illusion of separation from the infinite source of life, which is grace, which is love. It is this force (love) that sustains and maintains the creation moment to moment, day to day…week to week, month to month, year to year, century to century and millennium. to millennium.

The Devil is limitation of mind. The Devil in flesh is the rationalist or uncomprised intellectual who sees the universe as a blind mechanical force, acting in an arbitrary fashion imposing upon mankind an infinite variety of hardships and dis- eases. The Devil is that agency within us which sows seeds of fear and confusion and declares in no uncertain terms that – this is how life is! The Devil is a speaker of lies.

The concept of life as limitation is total illusion and represents spiritual blindness or ignorance. Ignorance and fear go hand in hand and it is fear, based upon limitation which is illusion, that is the cause of all dis-ease. To bring this concept into the now, let us look at the great “crisis” which is encroaching upon humanity today. The “energy crisis” is upon us so “they” say, yet it is an acknowledged scientific fact that the energy which sustains and maintains the universe is infinite. So much for the Devil.

As stated, each of us has been given free will and the ability to make conscious choices regarding our experiences. The quality of our lives is determined by our conscious choices. It is, however, through the infinite grace of God, that God; (infinite creative intelligence) educates us to understand his our nature. For wisdom lies within the understanding that life is self-liberating through Christ. Christ being the word or logos principle contained within the mind. Christ is synonymous with pure intelligence and is expressed as reason. Reasonableness is a reflection of Christhood. (2)

This realization and the saving grace of Lord Jesus Christ, which is but another name for life, contains the secret of liberation.

The mystical or occult name of Jesus is based upon the tetragrammaton; the tetragrammaton being the most ancient and eternal flame of God. YOD-HEVAV-HE – Fire-Water-Air-Earth – this is the revealed name of God. The “I am that I am” contains within it the secret of the pentagram, the symbol of the divine human.

For Jesus said, Jesus being the living incarnation of God-Man, “Eritis no sicut dii, non sicut deus , sed eritis deus. ” “You will not be as gods.” (Jesus referring to-~the statement in Genesis where God revealed our true nature in proclaiming, “Know that ye are Gods”).

This is an evolution in thought regarding the human nature. To understand the Bible and to understand life in its true sense, one must understand that life unfolds and evolves through thought or consciousness. “‘That which hath been made was life in the creative thought, and the life was the light” is the declaration at the beginning of the Gospel according to St. John. The life power, God.

This reasonableness is founded upon the true knowledge of oneself. True knowledge of oneself brings one to the realization that with God, all things are possible.
Jacob Boehme –The Life & Doctrine of Jacob Boehme -Franz Hartmann, M.D.

The creative thinker, dwells within each of us, forever revealing itself to itself in manifested form.

The key to understanding our true nature in relationship to universal infinite intelligence is encoded within the symbolism of the pentagram as previously stated. The letters at the five points of the pentagram are the Roman characters corresponding to Yod-heh-shin-vav-heh. These are the letters which spell the divine name, IHVH, the most ancient and eternal name of God – I am that I am, with the I ‘holy letter, ” shin, the letter , of the Holy Spirit, placed between the first two and the last two letters, thus IHSHVH. This is the occult and Rosicrucian spelling of the name Yehushua or Jesus.

The pentagram expresses the mind’s domination over the elements. It is the Star of the Magi, the burning star of the Gnostic Schools, the sign of intellectual omnipotence and autocracy. All symbols of the gnosis, all figures of occultism, all Qabalistic keys of prophecy, are resumed in the sign of the pentagram. It is the sign of the absolute and universal synthesis. HUMAN.

In drawing a pentagram, we divide each of its five lines in exact extreme and mean proportion, which may be defined as the division of any quantity into two such parts or proportions as that the measure of the lesser part shall bear the same relation to the measure of the greater part as the measure of the greater part bears in turn to the whole quantity. The occult interpretation of this mathematical proportion is sometimes expressed in the maxim: “Nature is to us as we are to God.” The proportion itself is often called the Golden Section of Pythagoras, and is associated with the Hermetic axiom: That which is above, is as that which is below, and that which is below, is as that which is above.

As I have stated, the Bible is a Qabalistic book and the keys to Qabalah are revealed on the tree of life through the symbolism of Tarot. The Bible is a coded book based upon the relationship of numbers and letters.

The ancient Hebrews and Greeks had no numerals. They performed their arithmetical calculations with the letters of their alphabets. In Hebrew and Greek every letter is a number. Every word is therefore a number, the sum of the values of its letters. In manuscripts of the Old and New Testaments, not only are the numbers of chapters, verses, and pages indicated by combinations of letters; but there are many examples of special spellings and unusual phrasing intended to indicate definite numbers.

Based upon this fact, that in Hebrew and Greek every word is a number, is a method of Biblical interpretation called gematria, a term derived probably from, The Great Seal of the United States -Its History, Symbolism and Message for the New Age by Paul Foster Case.

From the Greek word “geometria” comes the English noun geometry. Rabbinical commentators on the Old Testament used gematria long before the Christian era.

The underlying notion of gematria is that words having the same number often have a hidden correspondence in meaning of which the identity in number is a signal. Gematria is not limited to single words. It applies to phrases and sentences also.

In the composition of the Old and New Testaments, and of other sacred and esoteric writings, this number letter code was utilized in order to preserve a record of arcane knowledge while at the same time concealing the real significance of the writing from all but those who possessed the key.

“In thirty-two wonderfully distinguished paths of wisdom did the Creative Powers of Life, God Almighty, Compassionate and Merciful, Supreme and Exalted, Who is Eternal, Sublime, and Holy, decree and create our universe by means of three kinds of characters: Numbers, Letters, and Words: ten circumscribed Sephiroth, and twenty-two fundamental signs; three Mother, seven Double, and twelve Simple Letters.”

The following table gives the names, numbers, and some of the correspondences of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. These correspondences include the four elements of the ancients, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac. These twenty-two letters are contained within the twenty-two tarot cards.

5. Anonymous, Paul Foster Case. Published by the Builders of the Adyturn, L.A. CA.

God

3 1 4
Gimel – Aleph – Daleth
8

The number 8 is the digit value of the name translated “Lord” in the Authorized Version of the Bible. It is not really a name at all, but rather a verbal, numerical and geometrical formula. In Roman letters corresponding to Hebrew it is spelled IHVH. Correctly translated, it means “that which was, that which is, that which shall be.” That, not He. Thus, it is a perfect verbal symbol for the One Reality-for that something which has always subsisted behind all forms in the eternity of the past, for that something which really is behind all the appearances and misunderstandings of the present, for that something which will be the foundation for all the changing forms of life-expression in the eternity to come.

888 – is the numeration of the name Jesus in Greek and 8 is not only the “Dominical number” or “Number of the Lord, in Christian numerical symbolism, but is also the particular number of the god called Thoth by Egyptians, Nebo by Assyrians, Hermes by Greeks, and Mercury by Romans.

Thus 8 is pre-eminently the number of magic and of Hermetic Science. Its Hebrew name is Splendor, and the aspect of consciousness to which it corresponds is called perfect intelligence. (6)

This symbolic representation of God- Man is understood as the infinite creative intelligence (Aleph) operating through undeviating justice or law (Lamed).

In Hebrew A is Eh -which means I Am. 7
From Lamed we have La -which is Love.
Combined we have A-La-as in Allah.
” I Am Love”

. EhEyEh -I am that I am. Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 14.

Love and strength hence have corresponding roots and are really one and the same.

This directly corresponds with the Gospel of St. John where it is stated that God is Love.

The Fool (Aleph) is the indwelling, infinite creative spirit of life within us. It is the spirit of Freedom. Life in itself knows no limits or boundaries. Life is infinite and free and contains within itself all possibilities.

It is within this realization that we may rejoice in our inherent creativity and know that this spirit of creativity holds the keys to our personal and collective liberation. Life is free and so are we.

Now, the creative spirit works in harmony with the law which is the Lord/Lady. Lord in Hebrew corresponds to the law. The word Lord in Hebrew is Adonai, through gematria it reduces to the number 11, which in tarot is the key of Lamed –justice, which is the Lady. It is through knowledge of the Lord (the law) and Lady (justice) that humanity attains Wisdom, which is peace. The number 11 reduces to the number 2 which on the Tree of Life is Wisdom.

The laws of God are contained within the laws of nature. The Law is immutable and eternal. Hence, it is said that God (truth, the law) is a respecter of no persons. Our work as Human beings is to come to understand the law, which is God, which is truth.

The law was revealed to Moses, who was the law giver unto the people of Is-Ra- El.

“You must love the Lord (the law) & Lady (justice) with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your might.”

Now, The All/God, the eternal principal of life, manifests itself eternally through humanity and through nature as pure intelligence revealed itself unto mankind through a being named Jesus.

Jesus, jod-He-Shin-Vav-He. As the son of Man (Humanity), and the incarnating Logos principle, as the manifesting Godhead, declared to us (Humanity) -to be the alpha and the omega.

In Revelation, Chapter 22 Verse 13 it is stated – “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.”

Let us look at the diagram of the Tree of Life on page 7 and come to understand this most profound statement.

1 ) The Alpha is Mercury-Orange-Hod-Splendor (Pure Intelligence) (in Science the color orange is designated by the Greek letter alpha.)

2) The Omega is Jupiter-Blue-Chesed-Mercy and Compassion. (In Science the color blue is designated by the Greek letter omega.) Together, the Alpha and the Omega, which is also the masculine 4th feminine principle fuse together in Tipareth-the Sun-Beauty-Gold.

Gold is the color of light.
God-Man is Beauty.
Beauty is truth.

Hence, the One Life, the pure infinite creative intelligence which is operating under law is forever manifesting its one self through us as humans and through nature as Beauty.

Wisdom is in the Understanding
that All is Beauty.

Woman21 = 3

Woman is the Universal, Cosmic Mind dwelling within man. 3 on the Tree of Life corresponds to the name Binah which means Understanding. Within Wo-man, all Wisdom and Knowledge is contained. All the powers and potencies within the God- head itself are contained within woman. As such, she holds the key to man’s Freedom.

The Empress, Venus, Key 3, represents the power of Creative Forces. One only has to look at nature, nature being the manifested universe, to realize that there Is a power within us, which is supremely intelligent, and supremely creative. When Humanity awakens to this awesome intelligence, which is in us and around us, mankind will learn to use its inherent creativity in a fashion which will serve ourselves, humanity and nature.

It is our high destiny to live in harmony with nature. To do this, we must first understand its laws and the ways of nature. Through our understanding of the laws of nature which are the laws of good, good will be created. Nature is always ready, willing and able to share her secrets with us. We need only be open, receptive and respectful of her ways and all will be revealed through the process we call time.

Woman as wisdom reveals herself to man as knowledge. It is through our understanding of nature that we acquire both Wisdom and Knowledge. One aspect of this knowledge constitutes biochemistry which is the science of life. It is through biochemistry and applied nutrition that man will eradicate dis-ease on this planet.

Science through biochemical- understanding and through applying the laws of consciousness will also uncover the principles which will lead to the reversal of the aging process. This understanding and its realization is happening now. We will over come our last enemy, which is death, and hence bring to fulfillment the prophecy of the New Testament wherein it is promised that we, through the grace of Jesus Christ, will come into Eternal Life.

Now the name Jesus Christ in Hebrew means “the nature of Reality is to liberate through intelligence.” It is through the grace of the spiritual (unseen) intelligence – which is life, which is Light, that we will overcome our fear of death. The instrument of humanity’s liberation is the Holy Spirit which is the power of Love, education and Intelligence.

The Hebrew letter Shin is the corresponding letter of the feminine Holy Spirit. It is the middle letter of the name Jesus. jod-He-Shin-Vav-He. This letter V, Shin, is attributed to the element of fire. This same letter,

TV Shin, the Quintessence, also stands for Ruach Elohim, the Spirit of God. This spiritual quintessence, which is Fire is experienced by humanity as Music.

Humanity, through the intelligence of life is coming into a clear perception and interpretation of life and is coming to know that we are life and as life there can be no death for life is eternal. This understanding constitutes real knowledge which leads to Wisdom which is Peace.

Peace

Two of Swords

Hu-Man10 The Kingdom

Key 19-The Sun

The Kingdom and the glory of God, the Holy Spirit lives within us. Life gives totally of itself unto us. We need only be open and receptive to receive the gifts of the spirit. Each of us is the synthesis of all cosmic activities.

And Jesus said to his disciples: “I am come forth out of that First Mystery, which is the

last mystery, that is the four and twentieth mystery.” And his disciples have not known

nor understood that anything existeth within that mystery; but they thought of that

mystery, that it is the head of the universe and the head of all existence; and they thought

it is the completion of all completions, because Jesus had said to them concerning that my

stery, that it surroundeth the First Commandment and the five Impressions and the

great Light and the five Helpers and the whole Treasury of the Light.”

The inner Jesus comes forth out of the First Mystery. Considering that the Son is one

with the Father, and the Father is one with the Son, whosoever has seen the Son, has seen

the Father

The First Mystery is the Mystery of the Father, and this is why it is also the Last Mystery.

The Ancient of Centuries is the First and the Last of the Mysteries.

The Four – and-Twentieth Mystery, which is explainable by the Sixth Mystery, hides

within its womb the First Mystery. The First Mystery, which is explainable by the Four-and-Twentieth Mystery, and which is synthesized in the Sixth Mystery, is the very head of the Universe.

The First Mystery, which is also the Four-and-Twentieth Mystery, enfolds the First Commandment, although, the Commandments of the Law of God are twent – two. The First Commandment also surrounds the five Impressions of the great Light, and the five Helpers, and the whole Treasury of the Light.

“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee, and my heart

feeleth thee.” Even though the First Commandment, the five Impressions of the Great Light, the five

Helpers, and the entire Treasury of the Light are under the Law of the Scale, they are

contained within the First Mystery in their final synthesis.

The five Impressions of the Great Light are found represented in the esoteric Pentagram.

The Gnostic Pentagram is the human figure with four limbs, and one unique apex, which

is the head. The sign of the Pentagram is also called the sign of the Microcosm. It represents what the

Cabbalist Rabbis of the book Zohar call the Microprosopos.

When the superior point of the Pentagram is aiming upwards towards the air, it represents

the Savior of the world.

When the two inferior points of the Pentagram are aiming upwards towards the air, it

represents the male goat of the Witches’ Sabbath.

A human figure with the head aiming downwards obviously represents a demon, that is to

say, an intellectual subversion, disorder, or madness.

The Pentagram, which in the Gnostic schools is known as the Flaming Star, is the sign of

magic omnipotence. The five Impressions of the Great Light, and the five Helpers, are contained within the

Flaming Star.The five Helpers are the five Genii: Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Michael, and Samael. The

entire Treasury of the Light is contained within the Pentagram, and this allegorizes the

human being.The comprehension of the magic Pentagram is the key of the two Spaces.

The sign of the Pentagram must be composed of the seven metals, or at least traced in

(Seven Sermons to the Dead)

THE SEVEN SERMONS TO THE DEAD
WRITTEN BY BASILIDES IN ALEXANDRIA,
THE CITY WHERE THE EAST
TOUCHETH THE WEST.

Sermo I

The dead came back from Jerusalem, where they found not what they sought. They prayed me let them in and besought my word, and thus I began my teaching.

Harken: I begin with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as fullness. In infinity full is no better than empty. Nothingness is both empty and full. As well might ye say anything else of nothingness, as for instance, white is it, or black, or again, it is not, or it is. A thing that is infinite and eternal hath no qualities, since it hath all qualities.

This nothingness or fullness we name the PLEROMA. Therein both thinking and being cease, since the eternal and infinite possess no qualities. In it no being is, for he then would be distinct from the pleroma, and would possess qualities which would distinguish him as something distinct from the pleroma.

In the pleroma there is nothing and everything. It is quite fruitless to think about the pleroma, for this would mean self-dissolution.

CREATURA is not in the pleroma, but in itself. The pleroma is both beginning and end of created beings. It pervadeth them, as the light of the sun everywhere pervadeth the air. Although the pleroma pervadeth altogether, yet hath created being no share thereof, just as a wholly transparent body becometh neither light nor dark through the light which pervadeth it. We are, however, the pleroma itself, for we are a part of the eternal and infinite. But we have no share thereof, as we are from the pleroma infinitely removed; not spiritually or temporally, but essentially, since we are distinguished from the pleroma in our essence as creatura, which is confined within time and space.

Yet because we are parts of the pleroma, the pleroma is also in us. Even in the smallest point is the pleroma endless, eternal, and entire, since small and great are qualities which are contained in it. It is that nothingness which is everywhere whole and continuous. Only figuratively, therefore, do I speak of created being as a part of the pleroma. Because, actually, the pleroma is nowhere divided, since it is nothingness. We are also the whole pleroma, because, figuratively, the pleroma is the smallest point (assumed only, not existing) in us and the boundless firmament about us. But wherefore, then, do we speak of the pleroma at all, since it is thus everything and nothing?

I speak of it to make a beginning somewhere, and also to free you from the delusion that somewhere, either without or within, there standeth something fixed, or in some way established, from the beginning. Every so-called fixed and certain thing is only relative. That alone is fixed and certain which is subject to change.

What is changeable, however, is creatura. Therefore is it the one thing which is fixed and certain; because it hath qualities: it is even quality itself.

The question ariseth: How did creatura originate? Created beings came to pass, not creatura; since created being is the very quality of the pleroma, as much as non-creation which is the eternal death. In all times and places is creation, in all times and places is death. The pleroma hath all, distinctiveness and non-distinctiveness.

Distinctiveness is creatura. It is distinct. Distinctiveness is its essence, and therefore it distinguisheth. Therefore man discriminateth because his nature is distinctiveness. Wherefore also he distinguisheth qualities of the pleroma which are not. He distinguisheth them out of his own nature. Therefore must he speak of qualities of the pleroma which are not.

What use, say ye, to speak of it? Saidst thou not thyself, there is no profit in thinking upon the pleroma?

That said I unto you, to free you from the delusion that we are able to think about the pleroma. When we distinguish qualities of the pleroma, we are speaking from the ground of our own distinctiveness and concerning our own distinctiveness. But we have said nothing concerning the pleroma. Concerning our own distinctiveness, however, it is needful to speak, whereby we may distinguish ourselves enough. Our very nature is distinctiveness. If we are not true to this nature we do not distinguish ourselves enough. Therefore must we make distinctions of qualities.

What is the harm, ye ask, in not distinguishing oneself? If we do not distinguish, we get beyond our own nature, away from creatura. We fall into indistinctiveness, which is the other quality of the pleroma. We fall into the pleroma itself and cease to be creatures. We are given over to dissolution in the nothingness. This is the death of the creature. Therefore we die in such measure as we do not distinguish. Hence the natural striving of the creature goeth towards distinctiveness, fighteth against primeval, perilous sameness. This is called the principium individuationis. This principle is the essence of the creature. From this you can see why indistinctiveness and non-distinction are a great danger for the creature.

We must, therefore, distinguish the qualities of the pleroma. The qualities are pairs of opposites, such as—

The Effective and the Ineffective.

Fullness and Emptiness.

Living and Dead.

Difference and Sameness.

Light and Darkness.

The Hot and the Cold.

Force and Matter.

Time and Space.

Good and Evil.

Beauty and Ugliness.

The One and the Many. etc.

The pairs of opposites are qualities of the pleroma which are not, because each balanceth each. As we are the pleroma itself, we also have all these qualities in us. Because the very ground of our nature is distinctiveness, therefore we have these qualities in the name and sign of distinctiveness, which meaneth—

1. These qualities are distinct and separate in us one from the other; therefore they are not balanced and void, but are effective. Thus are we the victims of the pairs of opposites. The pleroma is rent in us.

2. The qualities belong to the pleroma, and only in the name and sign of distinctiveness can and must we possess or live them. We must distinguish ourselves from qualities. In the pleroma they are balanced and void; in us not. Being distinguished from them delivereth us.

When we strive after the good or the beautiful, we thereby forget our own nature, which is distinctiveness, and we are delivered over to the qualities of the pleroma, which are pairs of opposites. We labor to attain to the good and the beautiful, yet at the same time we also lay hold of the evil and the ugly, since in the pleroma these are one with the good and the beautiful. When, however, we remain true to our own nature, which is distinctiveness, we distinguish ourselves from the good and the beautiful, and, therefore, at the same time, from the evil and the ugly. And thus we fall not into the pleroma, namely, into nothingness and dissolution.

Thou sayest, ye object, that difference and sameness are also qualities of the pleroma. How would it be, then, if we strive after difference? Are we, in so doing, not true to our own nature? And must we none the less be given over to sameness when we strive after difference?

Ye must not forget that the pleroma hath no qualities. We create them through thinking. If, therefore, ye strive after difference or sameness, or any qualities whatsoever, ye pursue thoughts which flow to you out of the pleroma; thoughts, namely, concerning non-existing qualities of the pleroma. Inasmuch as ye run after these thoughts, ye fall again into the pleroma, and reach difference and sameness at the same time. Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference, as ye think it, must ye strive; but after your own being. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being. If ye had this striving ye would not need to know anything about the pleroma and its qualities, and yet would ye come to your right goal by virtue of your own being. Since, however, thought estrangeth from being, that knowledge must I teach you wherewith ye may be able to hold your thought in leash.

Sermo II

In the night the dead stood along the wall and cried:

We would have knowledge of god. Where is god? Is god dead?

God is not dead. Now, as ever, he liveth. God is creatura, for he is something definite, and therefore distinct from the pleroma. God is quality of the pleroma, and everything which I said of creatura also is true concerning him.

He is distinguished, however, from created beings through this, that he is more indefinite and indeterminable than they. He is less distinct than created beings, since the ground of his being is effective fullness. Only in so far as he is definite and distinct is he creatura, and in like measure is he the manifestation of the effective fullness of the pleroma.

Everything which we do not distinguish falleth into the pleroma and is made void by its opposite. If, therefore, we do not distinguish god, effective fullness is for us extinguished.

Moreover god is the pleroma itself, as likewise each smallest point in the created and uncreated is the pleroma itself.

Effective void is the nature of the devil. God and devil are the first manifestations of nothingness, which we call the pleroma. It is indifferent whether the pleroma is or is not, since in everything it is balanced and void. Not so creatura. In so far as god and devil are creatura they do not extinguish each other, but stand one against the other as effective opposites. We need no proof of their existence. It is enough that we must always be speaking of them. Even if both were not, creatura, of its own essential distinctiveness, would forever distinguish them anew out of the pleroma.

Everything that discrimination taketh out of the pleroma is a pair of opposites. To god, therefore, always belongeth the devil.

This inseparability is as close and, as your own life hath made you see, as indissoluble as the pleroma itself. Thus it is that both stand very close to the pleroma, in which all opposites are extinguished and joined.

God and devil are distinguished by the qualities fullness and emptiness, generation and destruction. Effectiveness is common to both. Effectiveness joineth them. Effectiveness, therefore, standeth above both; is a god above god, since in its effect it uniteth fullness and emptiness.

This is a god whom ye knew not, for mankind forgot it. We name it by its name Abraxas. It is more indefinite still than god and devil.

That god may be distinguished from it, we name god Helios or Sun. Abraxas is effect. Nothing standeth opposed to it but the ineffective; hence its effective nature freely unfoldeth itself. The ineffective is not, therefore resisteth not. Abraxas standeth above the sun and above the devil. It is improbable probability, unreal reality. Had the pleroma a being, Abraxas would be its manifestation. It is the effective itself, not any particular effect, but effect in general.

It is unreal reality, because it hath no definite effect.

It is also creatura, because it is distinct from the pleroma.

The sun hath a definite effect, and so hath the devil. Wherefore do they appear to us more effective than indefinite Abraxas.

It is force, duration, change.

The dead now raised a great tumult, for they were Christians.

Sermo III

Like mists arising from a marsh, the dead came near and cried: Speak further unto us concerning the supreme god.

Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas. Its power is the greatest, because man perceiveth it not. From the sun he draweth the summum bonum; from the devil the infimum malum; but from Abraxas life, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil.

Smaller and weaker life seemeth to be than the summum bonum; wherefore is it also hard to conceive that Abraxas transcendeth even the sun in power, who is himself the radiant source of all the force of life.

Abraxas is the sun, and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of the void, the belittling and dismembering devil.

The power of Abraxas is twofold; but ye see it not, because for your eyes the warring opposites of this power are extinguished.

What the god-sun speaketh is life.

What the devil speaketh is death.

But Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time.

Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness, in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.

It is splendid as the lion in the instant he striketh down his victim. It is beautiful as a day of spring. It is the great Pan himself and also the small one. It is Priapos.

It is the monster of the under-world, a thousand-armed polyp, coiled knot of winged serpents, frenzy.

It is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning.

It is the lord of the toads and frogs, which live in the water and go up on the land, whose chorus ascendeth at noon and at midnight.

It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness.

It is holy begetting.

It is love and love’s murder.

It is the saint and his betrayer.

It is the brightest light of day and the darkest night of madness.

To look upon it, is blindness.

To know it, is sickness.

To worship it, is death.

To fear it, is wisdom.

To resist it not, is redemption.

God dwelleth behind the sun, the devil behind the night. What god bringeth forth out of the light the devil sucketh into the night. But Abraxas is the world, its becoming and its passing. Upon every gift that cometh from the god-sun the devil layeth his curse.

Everything that ye entreat from the god-sun begetteth a deed of the devil.

Everything that ye create with the god-sun giveth effective power to the devil.

That is terrible Abraxas.

It is the mightiest creature, and in it the creature is afraid of itself.

It is the manifest opposition of creatura to the pleroma and its nothingness.

It is the son’s horror of the mother.

It is the mother’s love for the son.

It is the delight of the earth and the cruelty of the heavens.

Before its countenance man becometh like stone.

Before it there is no question and no reply.

It is the life of creatura.

It is the operation of distinctiveness.

It is the love of man.

It is the speech of man.

It is the appearance and the shadow of man.

It is illusory reality.

Now the dead howled and raged, for they were unperfected.

Sermo IV

The dead filled the place murmuring and said:

Tell us of gods and devils, accursed one!

The god-sun is the highest good; the devil is the opposite. Thus have ye two gods. But there are many high and good things and many great evils. Among these are two god-devils; the one is the burning one, the other the growing one.

The burning one is eros, who hath the form of flame. Flame giveth light because it consumeth.

The growing one is the tree of life. It buddeth, as in growing it heapeth up living stuff.

Eros flameth up and dieth. But the tree of life groweth with slow and constant increase through unmeasured time.

Good and evil are united in the flame.

Good and evil are united in the increase of the tree. In their divinity stand life and love opposed.

Innumerable as the host of the stars is the number of gods and devils.

Each star is a god, and each space that a star filleth is a devil. But the empty-fullness of the whole is the pleroma.

The operation of the whole is Abraxas, to whom only the ineffective standeth opposed.

Four is the number of the principal gods, as four is the number of the world’s measurements.

One is the beginning, the god-sun.

Two is Eros; for he bindeth twain together and outspreadeth himself in brightness.

Three is the Tree of Life, for it filleth space with bodily forms.

Four is the devil, for he openeth all that is closed. All that is formed of bodily nature doth he dissolve; he is the destroyer in whom everything is brought to nothing.

For me, to whom knowledge hath been given of the multiplicity and diversity of the gods, it is well. But woe unto you, who replace these incompatible many by a single god. For in so doing ye beget the torment which is bred from not understanding, and ye mutilate the creature whose nature and aim is distinctiveness. How can ye be true to your own nature when ye try to change the many into one? What ye do unto the gods is done likewise unto you. Ye all become equal and thus is your nature maimed.

Equality shall prevail not for god, but only for the sake of man. For the gods are many, whilst men are few. The gods are mighty and can endure their manifoldness. For like the stars they abide in solitude, parted one from the other by immense distances. But men are weak and cannot endure their manifold nature. Therefore they dwell together and need communion, that they may bear their separateness. For redemption’s sake I teach you the rejected truth, for the sake of which I was rejected.

The multiplicity of the gods correspondeth to the multiplicity of man.

Numberless gods await the human state. Numberless gods have been men. Man shareth in the nature of the gods. He cometh from the gods and goeth unto god.

Thus, just as it serveth not to reflect upon the pleroma, it availeth not to worship the multiplicity of the gods. Least of all availeth it to worship the first god, the effective abundance and the summum bonum. By our prayer we can add to it nothing, and from it nothing take; because the effective void swalloweth all.

The bright gods form the celestial world. It is manifold and infinitely spreading and increasing. The god-sun is the supreme lord of that world.

The dark gods form the earth-world. They are simple and infinitely diminishing and declining. The devil is the earth-world’s lowest lord, the moon-spirit, satellite of the earth, smaller, colder, and more dead than the earth.

There is no difference between the might of the celestial gods and those of the earth. The celestial gods magnify, the earth-gods diminish. Measureless is the movement of both.

Sermo V

The dead mocked and cried: Teach us, fool, of the church and holy communion.

The world of the gods is made manifest in spirituality and in sexuality. The celestial ones appear in spirituality, the earthly in sexuality.

Spirituality conceiveth and embraceth. It is womanlike and therefore we call it mater coelestis, the celestial mother. Sexuality engendereth and createth. It is manlike, and therefore we call it phallos, the earthly father.

The sexuality of man is more of the earth, the sexuality of woman is more of the spirit.

The spirituality of man is more of heaven, it goeth to the greater.

The spirituality of woman is more of the earth, it goeth to the smaller.

Lying and devilish is the spirituality of the man which goeth to the smaller.

Lying and devilish is the spirituality of the woman which goeth to the greater.

Each must go to its own place.

Man and woman become devils one to the other when they divide not their spiritual ways, for the nature of creatura is distinctiveness.

The sexuality of man hath an earthward course, the sexuality of woman a spiritual. Man and woman become devils one to the other if they distinguish not their sexuality.

Man shall know of the smaller, woman the greater.

Man shall distinguish himself both from spirituality and from sexuality. He shall call spirituality Mother, and set her between heaven and earth. He shall call sexuality Phallos, and set him between himself and earth. For the Mother and the Phallos are super-human daemons which reveal the world of the gods. They are for us more effective than the gods, because they are closely akin to our own nature. Should ye not distinguish yourselves from sexuality and from spirituality, and not regard them as of a nature both above you and beyond, then are ye delivered over to them as qualities of the pleroma. Spirituality and sexuality are not your qualities, not things which ye possess and contain. But they possess and contain you; for they are powerful daemons, manifestations of the gods, and are, therefore, things which reach beyond you, existing in themselves. No man hath a spirituality unto himself, or a sexuality unto himself. But he standeth under the law of spirituality and of sexuality.

No man, therefore, escapeth these daemons. Ye shall look upon them as daemons, and as a common task and danger, a common burden which life hath laid upon you. Thus is life for you also a common task and danger, as are the gods, and first of all terrible Abraxas.

Man is weak, therefore is communion indispensable. If your communion be not under the sign of the Mother, then is it under the sign of the Phallos. No communion is suffering and sickness. Communion in everything is dismemberment and dissolution.

Distinctiveness leadeth to singleness. Singleness is opposed to communion. But because of man’s weakness over against the gods and daemons and their invincible law is communion needful. Therefore shall there be as much communion as is needful, not for man’s sake, but because of the gods. The gods force you to communion. As much as they force you, so much is communion needed, more is evil.

In communion let every man submit to others, that communion be maintained; for ye need it.

In singleness the one man shall be superior to the others, that every man may come to himself and avoid slavery.

In communion there shall be continence.

In singleness there shall be prodigality.

Communion is depth.

Singleness is height.

Right measure in communion purifieth and preserveth.

Right measure in singleness purifieth and increaseth.

Communion giveth us warmth, singleness giveth us light.

Sermo VI

The daemon of sexuality approacheth our soul as a serpent. It is half human and appeareth as thought-desire.

The daemon of spirituality descendeth into our soul as the white bird. It is half human and appeareth as desire-thought.

The serpent is an earthy soul, half daemonic, a spirit, and akin to the spirits of the dead. Thus too, like these, she swarmeth around in the things of earth, making us either to fear them or pricking us with intemperate desires. The serpent hath a nature like unto woman. She seeketh ever the company of the dead who are held by the spell of the earth, they who found not the way beyond that leadeth to singleness. The serpent is a whore. She wantoneth with the devil and with evil spirits; a mischievous tyrant and tormentor, ever seducing to evilest company. The white bird is a half-celestial soul of man. He bideth with the Mother, from time to time descending. The bird hath a nature like unto man, and is effective thought. He is chaste and solitary, a messenger of the Mother. He flieth high above earth. He commandeth singleness. He bringeth knowledge from the distant ones who went before and are perfected. He beareth our word above to the Mother. She intercedeth, she warneth, but against the gods she hath no power. She is a vessel of the sun. The serpent goeth below and with her cunning she lameth the phallic daemon, or else goadeth him on. She yieldeth up the too crafty thoughts of the earthy one, those thoughts which creep through every hole and cleave to all things with desirousness. The serpent, doubtless, willeth it not, yet she must be of use to us. She fleeth our grasp, thus showing us the way, which with our human wits we could not find.

With disdainful glance the dead spake: Cease this talk of gods and daemons and souls. At bottom this hath long been known to us.

Sermo VII

Yet when night was come the dead again approached with lamentable mien and said: There is yet one matter we forgot to mention. Teach us about man.

Man is a gateway, through which from the outer world of gods, daemons, and souls ye pass into the inner world; out of the greater into the smaller world. Small and transitory is man. Already is he behind you, and once again ye find yourselves in endless space, in the smaller or innermost infinity. At immeasurable distance standeth one single Star in the zenith.

This is the one god of this one man. This is his world, his pleroma, his divinity.

In this world is man Abraxas, the creator and the destroyer of his own world.

This Star is the god and the goal of man.

This is his one guiding god. In him goeth man to his rest. Toward him goeth the long journey of the soul after death. In him shineth forth as light all that man bringeth back from the greater world. To this one god man shall pray.

Prayer increaseth the light of the Star. It casteth a bridge over death. It prepareth life for the smaller world and assuageth the hopeless desires of the greater.

When the greater world waxeth cold, burneth the Star.

Between man and his one god there standeth nothing, so long as man can turn away his eyes from the flaming spectacle of Abraxas.

Man here, god there.

Weakness and nothingness here, there eternally creative power.

Here nothing but darkness and chilling moisture.

There wholly sun.

Whereupon the dead were silent and ascended like the smoke above the herdsman’s fire, who through the night kept watch over his flock.

This thread is an open discussion on how the Anunnaki race might have looked like.
Everything I’m about to discuss in this thread will be pure speculation.

Having read alot of Mesopotamian stories from tablets , Its very rare to find a description of the Anunnaki’s physical appearance. However we can find some hints of their appearance by simply looking at what the tablets say about their descendants.

1)We obviously know that the anunnaki were humanoid like us.

2)We also know that they were tall , According to some tablets the demi-god Gilgamesh stood 7ft tall. In the Hebrew bible the giant Goliath was 6ft 9inch tall (2.06 metres). We could imagine the Anunnaki were roughly the same height as modern day basketball players.

3) In the some Sumerian tablets , the Anunnaki refers to humans on earth as “black headed people.”

We see Sargon of akkad use the same phrase to describe the citizens of Mesopotamia:

“The black-headed peoples I ruled, I governed.Whatsoever king shall be exalted after me, Let him rule, let him govern the black headed people.”

4) In the Epic of Gilgamesh a 4000 year old Sumerian story , The Anunnaki demi-goddess ‘Ninsun’ was described as follow:

“The mother of Gilgamesh was the pale Ninsun,
Herself listed among the goddesses,
A gentle queen,
Who had the gift of prophecy,
And could read dreams.”

Its no suprise that the stories of the Anunnaki spread to other cultures around the world.

Like all myths there are only 3 major types of (alien) races recorded in every culture.

1) You have the benevolent Amphibian/mermaid type race worshiped as Ocean/River gods

2) You have the aggressive Reptilian/serpent type race who were seen as monsters/daemons.

3) Lastly you have the giant human looking/sentient type race who were the patron gods of the human race. (The Anunnaki)

In both Greek & Hindu mythology these races continuously interbreeded with each other producing powerful offspring.
Its worth to note that in all the myths across the world both the Amphibian & Reptilian races lived underground. On some rare occasions they would allow their hybrid offspring to live among them.

Red hair also seems to be a trait that’s closely related to the gods especially the descendants of the Amphibian race , I guess it’s probably a mermaid thing…..

1)According to Homer Achilles was apparently a ginger. His mother who was an Ocean nymph was forcefully raped by a human , which lead to the birth of Achilles.

“Athena came down from heaven (the sky): She stood behind him and held him back by his long red hair. No other man saw her but Achilles alone.” -[Liad 850Bc]

2)Rhesus the mythical king of Thrace was also the son of a river god , He derived his name because of his red hair and is depicted on Greek pottery as having red hair and beard.

3)Thracians who were apparently the descendants of the god Ares had red hair and Blue eyes.

“those of the Thracians have blue eyes and red hair.” – [Xenophanes 543Bc]

4) In Irish mythology there is a mysterious tribe of red haired demi-gods called the Tuatha Dé Danann

The Hindus depicted their gods with blue skin and feminine features (just like the greeks), however later arts changed their skin to pale white to represent upper castes of Northern India , the word “Aryan” means ‘noble’ and was originally used In the Vedic scriptures to describe the descendants of the Hindu gods or those who have royal blood.

Just like the greeks the Hindus use the color of ‘gold’ to describe their gods:

According to scientists the mutations for light skin (A111T) , light hair (KITLG) and Blue eyes (OCA2) originated between the middle east and the Indian subcontinent (Iran) 8000 years ago (6000Bc). Before that time blue eyes & white skin didn’t exist , The fact that those mutations happened long after the Ice age & far away from cold northern climates raises alot of speculation , The theory that these mutations were caused by natural selection doesn’t hold any credibility. The latest and most probable theory suggests that these mutations came from Neanderthals. However Mutations for blond and red hair ect. havent been found in ancient European samples prior to the Bronze Age.

The genes for light skin ,eyes & hair originated from only 2 paternal (Ydna) markers. The first being haplogroup R1 which is distributed across the entire Eurasian continent & the second is haplogroup I1 which is predominantly found among Nordic people. Scientists originaly thought haplogroup I1 originated in Europe but new studies found that It originated in the middle-east along with haplogroup R1. Countries with the highest population frequency of haplogroup I1 are also the countries with the most tall people in the world.
If the Anunnaki were responsible for these “Aryan” traits then there is definitely evidence to back it up. Alot of people in the UFO community believe In Nordic type aliens that look exactly like us , so maybe there is some truth in all those legends after all.